Legal Opinion
Brian Gremillion and Connie Gremillion v. Gulf Coast Catering Company, Doerle's Quarterboats, Inc., and Albany Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 23, 1990No. 89-3761PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Brian Gremillion and his wife seek recovery for damages arising from a back injury that he incurred while transferring a piece of heavy equipment from a crewboat onto a shoreside housing barge. The plaintiffs premise their causes of action upon the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.App. § 688, and general maritime law. They claim that Gremil-lion was a seaman and thus entitled to the special remedies incident to such status. However, as a threshold matter we are called upon to determine whether an unconventional floating structure is a vessel. If it is, a different measure of…
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